Chapter 534: The Future

After arriving in the tower and temporarily getting rid of the puppet, Namikaze Minato finally couldn't help looking at Uzumaki Yi and Ling, whose conversation was extremely weird along the way, and asked in a rather tangled tone, "Um...are you two really friends?"

"There is no doubt about that!" Uzumaki Yi turned around and looked at Minato Namikaze who had taken off his mask, and finally fixed his eyes on the mark on his forehead protector, "It seems that you and Naruto are from the same place! It's great that the lost companions can reunite smoothly!"

"Um, Brother Yi - although they are all from Konoha, I don't know these three people at all. I have no idea whether Captain Yamato and Sakura are here." Uzumaki Naruto raised his hand with a twitching mouth, "and from what you said just now, I don't think you are friends at all..."

"Hmm? But isn't this the same feeling you have for that kid named Sasuke? We recognize each other, but because of our positions we can't work together, so we can only think of ways to completely defeat each other, or even die together! Yet, in times of crisis, we can trust each other completely. The feelings we both have towards our Uchiha friends are exactly the same!"

Uzumaki Yi laughed and patted Uzumaki Naruto on the back, then looked at Ling who was speechless, "This child is also an Uzumaki, and he also has an unbreakable bond with the Uchiha! He is a very interesting child! But it is a pity that the Uchiha clan was exterminated, otherwise after this child became the leader of Konoha, he would definitely be able to completely accept the Uchiha!"

"... Extermination of the clan? Uchiha?" Ling raised one eyebrow, glanced at the equally shocked Namikaze Minato and the other two, and finally sighed, "Is that so - ha, the last Uzumaki and the last Uchiha, what an inexplicable irony."

Uzumaki Yi was stunned, "The last vortex?"

"Well, I heard from Mr. Minato," Ling shifted his gaze to look at Minato Namikaze, whose pupils were trembling, "that when he was a child, the Uzumaki clan was completely destroyed because of the siege of the four major nations."

"I see," Uzumaki Yi frowned slightly and looked at Uzumaki Naruto beside him, "No wonder this child didn't learn the sealing technique. I thought it was just the Uzumaki clan declining in order to integrate into the collective, but I didn't expect... well, although it can't be considered a surprise, it is indeed ironic. They were once a famous and powerful ninja clan that could rival a country."

"Yeah, it's not surprising - but it doesn't matter, we still have time to change. After all, you can see our situation. This is not the [future] we are in." Ling lowered his head and smiled softly, "But it's a pity that after finally regaining my sight, none of the people I wanted to see are around."

“I can’t pretend I didn’t hear that!” Uzumaki Yi crossed his arms, his tone rising again, “At least I’m still by Ling’s side, right? A lifelong rival is also worth seeing!”

"Who wants to face a tough opponent?" Ling laughed, but soon sighed, "But then again, I'll let it go. After all, I did overestimate my abilities because everything went so smoothly back then. What's wrong with you? Didn't you accept the tribe leader's test when you were eighteen? But you look only fifteen or sixteen, right?"

"Normally speaking, we should construct the ritual when we are fifteen years old, but because Ling has been frustrating me, I have always believed that I am not qualified to take on this position! And Que Mi also wants to spend more time with her mother, so I just keep putting it off!"

Uzumaki Yi raised his hand and put his arm around Ling's shoulders. "So it's safe to say that Ling, you have caused all the difficulties in my life! But it is also because of you that I am who I am today! This feeling of fate is truly amazing! You are worthy of being the Yesha that I have identified with! Hahahaha——!"

Looking at Uzumaki Yi who was laughing heartily and Ling who clearly raised his hands to cover his face but did not push the person away, Namikaze Minato had to convince himself that the two people in front of him were a pair of friends with an extremely complicated relationship. However, compared to their rather inexplicable relationship, he was more concerned about the information revealed in their words.

"Excuse me, I have to interrupt you for a moment—" Namikaze Minato took a few steps forward and came in front of the two people with a solemn expression, "From what you said, you two are not from this era, right?"

"Well, we come from an older era with more conflicts," Ling put down his hand, chuckled and looked at Minato Namikaze, "But you and I are about the same age, so how about we treat each other as peers?"

"They are about the same age but look like this..." Namikaze Minato looked at the two people in front of him, "Is it related to what you said about [not our future]?"

"Yes, that's it. In this world, I died in a battle with the Senju clan when I was thirteen years old, so this world cannot show the way I should be. But because I actually appeared in the future here, I became like this."

“Me too!” Uzumaki Yi still had his hand on Ling’s shoulder. “In our time, I nearly died because of the ritual. Here, probably because I don’t have Ling’s encouragement, I’m more reckless. I worked hard to grow up but died at this age. It’s really shameful, hahahaha!”

After getting the answer, Namikaze Minato couldn't help but look at Uzumaki Naruto who was extremely uncomfortable because of the shock of their conversation. The Uchiha clan has not been exterminated yet, which means that the person in front of him who also has the Konoha forehead protector is from the future, and the only Uzumaki clan member left in Konoha is his wife - Uzumaki Kushina, and this child has blonde hair and blue eyes like himself...

[So he is my child?] Namikaze Minato frowned unconsciously, [Kushina attaches great importance to sealing techniques. If we were still here, it shouldn’t be... So, did we die when this child was young for some reason?]

When Namikaze Minato was looking at Uzumaki Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto also turned his eyes away because he felt his gaze. When he met Namikaze Minato's gentle smile, he said inexplicably, "Brother Minato, you look like the Fourth Hokage."